Tuesday, November 19, 2013

I get a lot of emails every day. Most of it is spam, some of it is daily epic deals and suchlike, but I have been pleasantly surprised with the awesomeness of one company. Spirit Airlines has the testicular fortitude to set itself apart as the Michael Richards of email marketing. They're as edgy as the parrot from Aladdin making a joke about 9/11 WAY too soon after the 9/11s.

One morning while browsing the emails that hand wandered into my inbox over night like wisps of fog blown across a Scottish moor (delicious visuals) I chanced upon one with the title "We're Not Smoking Crack..." and then glanced over to the sender and saw it was my dear and faithful penpal Spirit Airlines. They are almost as faithful as the crap I get from a linked in account I made in college, or the damned offers from Mimis Cafe. That sort of attention is not worth a free breakfast guys. I opened the email instead of banishing it directly to the fourth ring of hell (my trash folder) and was greeted with this:

This could be the edgiest spam email I've ever received and although I have no idea how I got onto their mailing list I now fully endorse spirit airlines. To make a joke about Rob Ford and used it as a way to market flights to the city of delicious snow (you got that snow, man?) is absolutely awesome. According to a coworker who is from Canada, Toronto used to be a nice place. My Grandma used to say that about the Plaza Bonita Mall in Chula Vista, but she was always being racist because brown people made her nervous. Old racist people are adorable.

In case you are confused about why jokes about smoking crack are funny and you were wondering why a hitchcockian silhouette and a record tally would be funny you sure have come late to the party. Your boy (Rob Ford, the formercurrentwhatever guy from Toronto) apparently likes to get really wasted with "urban" individuals and smoke a bunch of crack. And shoot video of it. Well done Toronto.

-G

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